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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 14, 1941
Page
2
A Braybrook Shire debate on housing and urban policy draws praise for a local article while readers hail progress toward an industrial, prosperous community. Leaders from the Liberal and Labor sides clash with Perrott on home ownership versus flats and slum elimination, highlighting land costs and wage constraints affecting workers.
A reader supports Mr Perrott and the criticizes party strife in municipal policy. The letter urges wider circulation of his views to ratepayers in Victoria and calls for decentralisation to ease urban crowding.
A letter to the editor argues for abolishing the party system and returning to government by statesmen not politicians. It praises a nation wide non party group opposed to Fascism and Communism, criticizing taxation, debt, and poverty amid rising wealth. It urges MPs to heed voters and stresses opposition to totalitarianism.
About 60 people gathered at Caxton House Sunshine on Saturday evening for a complimentary social honoring Ron Hibbs of the Air Force. Roy Blake praised Ron, presented a boxed keepsake inscribed RAAF, with remarks from Jack Blight and Tom Frith. The event included supper, dancing, two musical items by Jackie Dwyer, and a lucky spot dance won by J. Mulkearns and partner.
An enjoyable evening closes with singing of Auld Lang Syne led by Ron in the center of the ring. The performance leaves attendees smiling and content with the memorable finale.
All Aboard Club holds a March 6 meeting arranging a gas cooking demonstration for March 20 at 2 pm in the shire hall supper room. A stall will offer cacti plants and jams to fund club work. Miss Lambrick previously spoke at an afternoon meeting, raising funds for the Red Cross Blood Bank.
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